Cattle-stall.



G. A. NICCART.

CATTLE STALL.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. eI 1916.

Patented Sept. 12, 1916.

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Inventor FCPIRT GA A. M

Cufomlct G. A. VIcCART.

CATTLE STALL.

APPLICATION FILED IEB. 9, I9Is.

1,1 97,750, Patented Sept. 12, 1916.

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CATTLE-STALL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 12, 1916.

Application filed February 9, 1916. Serial No. 77,235.

To all w from t may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE A. MCOART, acitizen of the United States, residing at Harrisburg, in the county ofLinn and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Cattle-Stalls, o-f which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying, drawings.

This invention relates to stalls, and particularly to a stall designedfor cows.

One object of this invention is to provide an improved stall in whichthe hay rack is adjustable to suit the height or length of the cow orother animal, and particularly to provide means whereby the whole rackmay be shifted forward or rearward or whereby the inclination of therack may be adjusted, or whereby the inclination of the front of therack may be changed relative to the rear of the rack.

A further object is to provide means for maintaining the bedding withinthe stall, preventing the animal from scattering the bedding, said meansbeing mounted adjacent the floor and at the entrance end of the stalland being adjustable toward or from the hay rack, thus adapting it toanimals of different length, this means also acting to compel the animalto lie down on the bedding and also serving as a brace to preventslipping when the animal arises from a recumbent position.`

Other objects have to do with improvements in the details ofconstruction and arrangement of parts such as will permit the structureto be. readily assembled and installed, and such as will make thestructure particularly strong and rigid and effective for the purposefor which it is designed.

Still another object of the invention is to so design the structure thata plurality of stalls may be provided with a minimum of parts.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description. y

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1- is a front elevation of a stall constructed in accordance withmy invention; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the stall shown in Fig. 1,the floor and feed box bv ing partly in section; Fig. 3 is a perspectivedetail View of the means for supporting the bottom of the rack upon theguides 40; Fig.

4 shows the means whereby the front section of the rack is hingedlyconnected to the rear section of the rack; Fig. 5 is a transversesectional view of the floor of the stall, the supporting members 51being shown in section and the bar 50 in elevation; Fig. 6 is alongitudinal section of one of the supporting members 51 for thebar.

Referring to these figures, it will be seen that I provide a pluralityof pairs of vertical standards 10 and'll, the standards 10 beingtheforward standards and the standards 11 being the rear standards. Thelower ends of these standards are preferably embedded in the side wallsof a concrete feed box 12 while the upper ends of the standards may besupported each pair in a sill 13. The concrete feed box ispreferablylcast in one piece with a concrete floor 14, though this, itwill be understood, is a detail of construction which may be varied inmany ways. Connected to each of the vertical standards 11 by means of anelbow 15 is an outwardly extending partition or division bar 16 whichextends outward andl then` downward, and the rear end is bent verticallydownward and disposed in a suitable floor plate 17. Preferably sunk intothe concrete yfloor below the upper portion of each bar 16 is a plate 18which engages the lower ends of vertical rods 19, these rods beingpreferably tubular and the upper ends of the rods being engaged with thepipe section 16. The rods are preferably about three inches apart andare of any suitable height.

Rotatably mounted upon the standards 10 in a manner which` will behereafter stated is a front rack section, designated generally 20. Thisis formed of an upper longitudinally. extending pipe 21, a lowerlongitudi- Y nally extending pipe 22, and a plurality of bars 23 alsoformed of pipe sections tapped into the pipe sections 21 and 22. The endbars 24 are relatively larger than the bars 23 and at their upper endsare engaged with Ts 25 into which a connecting rod 21a loosely passes asillustrated clearly in Fig. 1. At the ends the 4Ts 25 are smooth ontheir inner faces and'have rotative engagement with the short rod 21a inthe manner illustrated most clearly in Fig. 1. These rods 21EL passthrough elbows 10a on the standards 10.

The rear section of each manger rack is formed of a rectangular framecomprising the end pipe sections 30 and the upper and lower pipesections 31 and 33 joined to each other' by means of elbows 34. Thelower pipe section 33 of the rear section of the rack is connected tothe lower pipe section 22 of the front section of the rack by links 35.These links are short pieces of pipe having looped heads at theirextremities which engage loosely around the pipe sections 22 and 23.Riveted, bolted or otherwise attached to these links is a plate 36 whichforms the bottom of the manger. It will be noticed that this plate isspaced. from the rear of the rack so that chaff, seeds and other likematerial may fall into the feed box. The upper end of the rear sectionof the rack is adj ustably connected to the standards 11 by mea-ns oflinks 37 which are pivotally connected to the pipe sections 30 and whichare provided with a plurality of perforations for engagement by pins 38passing through the standards l1.

To provide for a firm support for the rack whereby it may be adjustedfrom front to rear and also vertically, I attach to each pair` ofstandards 10 and 11 a pair of vertically adjustable angle irons 39having inwardly extending flanges provided with perforations 40. Thesestandards are formed with a vertical series of perforations 40a wherebythe angle irons 39 may be vertically adjusted and thus the manger orrack vertic-ally adjusted. Riveted, bolted or otherwise attached to thelower corners of the rear rack section are the irons 41 whose innerlends are transversely curved to fit the curvature of the elbows 34 andwhose outer ends are upwardly deflected and perforated at 42, theseperforations 42 being adapted to register with the perforations 40 inthe angle irons Pins or other suitable fastenings may be passed throughthe perforations 40 and 42 to hold the rack in any rearwardly orforwardly adjusted position.

Dividing the feed box belonging to one stall from the feed box of thenext adjacent stall are forwardly and rearwardly extending boards 43which may be clamped by U-bolts 44 to the standards l0 and 11, andextending along the front of each feed box are the boards 45 which maybe connected to the transverse boards 43 in any suitable manner, orconnected to the standards 10 and resting upon the upper edge of therear wall of the feed box is the transverse board 46. These may or maynot be used in order to deepen the feed box and may be con* nected tothe standards 11 by means of U- bolts or any other suitable manner.-Connected to an eye or staple 48, which is carried upon the bar 33, is achain 49 having branches which may be disposed around the neck of theanimal to fasten it in the stall.

In stalls as ordinarily'constructed there is considerable difficulty inkeeping the bedding in place within the stall. The animals are veryliable to push the bedding out toward the entrance end of the stall andthe bedding becomes therefore very dirty. In order to avoid this andalso in order to as far as possible prevent the animal from lying downoff the bedding or backing away from the feed rack so far that it willlie down upon soiled bedding, I provide the transversely extending bar50. This consists of a pipe having flattened ends, the ends beingdrilled for the passage of bolts and the ends of the pipe beingsupported upon oppositely disposed supporting members 5l extendinglongitudinally of the stall and beneath the division bars 16.

While I do not wish to be limited to the particular means for supportingthe bar 50, I preferably embed in the concrete floor the longitudinallyextending blocks 51 which project above the floor about three inches.Eachblock 51 is protected by a longitudinal strip of iron 52 and bolts53 pass downward through the strip and block and are embedded in theconcrete floor. The strip 52 and the wooden blocks 51 are tapped for thereception of half-inch bolts 54 which pass down through these tappedholes and are adapted to hold the bar in place. There are a number ofperforations for the passage of bolts 54 and hence the bar 5() may beadjusted longitudinally upon the blocks 51 and strips 52 to any extentdesired. Thus if the cow is short the bar may be adjusted toward thefront of the stall and to the full extent. If the cow is long, however,the bar may be adjusted nearer the entrance to the stall.

It will be obvious that the hay rack may be swung bodily upon the pivotformed by the pipe section 2l so as to adjust the rack nearer to orfarther from the entrance to the stall, and that this will also adjustthe inclination of the rack. Furthermore, the rear l section of the rackmay be rotated upon its pivot so as to change the inclination of thissection so that the rack may be adjusted in every respect to suit theanimal for which the stall is provided. The capacity of the rack mayalso be adjusted by shifting the front section toward or from the rearsection.

It will also be seen that by adjusting the angle irons 39 the rearsection of the rack may be held in a raised position, the rear sectionof the rack swinging by reason of the links 35 and the links or braces37. Thus the rack or manger may be shifted vertically so as to adjust itto animals of di'erent heights.

The bar 50 not only confines the bedding in that portion of the stalltoward the rack and prevents the bedding from being kicked out from thestall, but inasmuch as it extends about five inches above the level ofthey ioor it will prevent the cow or other animal from lying down at theentrance end of the stall because if the cow does so lie downit will bevery uncomfortable. This causes the cow to use only the clean bedding inthe forc ward portion of the stall. Furthermore, this bar serves as abrace to prevent slipping when the cow rises from a lying down position.

While I have illustrated the details of construction and arrangement ofparts which I have found to be particularly eective in practice andwhich are peculiarly designed to cheapen the construction of the stallby reducing the number of parts and simplifying the structure, yet I donot wish to be limited to this as it is obvious that many changes mightbe made in the details of construction without in any way departing fromthe spirit of the invention.

Having described the invention, what I claim is:

l. In a stall, a rearwardly and forwardly adjustable hay rack includinga rear section independently angularly adjustable.

2. In a stall, a hay rack comprising a front and a rear section, thefront section being rotatably supported at its upper end and the rearsection being adjustable with the front section and independentlyangularly adjustable relative to the front section.

3. In a stall, upwardly extending supporting members, a hay rackcomprising front and rear sections, the front section being rotatablysupported upon said supporting members, the rear section being angularlyadjustable relative to the front section, and links pivotally andadjustably connected to the supporting members and pivotally connectedto the upper end of the rear section whereby the rear section may beheld in angularly adjusted relation to the front section.

4. In a stall, oppositely disposed pairs of supporting members, a hayrack comprising front and rear sections, the front section beingrotatably supported operatively upon said supporting members whereby thehay rack may be angularly adjusted and the lower end of the rack shiftedlongitudinally, the rear section of the hay rack being pivotallysupported for independent angular movement and means for holding therear section of the rack in a plurality of adjusted positions.

5. In a stall, supporting members, a hay rack comprising a front sectionand rear section, and links pivotally connecting the rear section at itslower end with the front section, the front section being pivotallyconnected at its upper end to the supporting members to provide forbodily swinging movement of the rack relative to said supportingmembers, and means for holding the rear section in adjusted positionsrelative to the front section, and means for holding the front sectionin any adjusted position.

6. In a stall, supporting members, a hay rack swingingly mounted at itsupper end upon said supporting members for bodily swinging movement,said rack including a rear rack section pivotally mounted upon the bodyof the rack for independent angular' movement relative thereto, meansfor holding the rack as a whole in angularly adj usted positions to thesupporting members, and means for holding the rear section in angularlyadjusted positions relative to the body of the rack.

l7. In a stall, supporting members, tracks extending parallel to thesides of the stall mounted upon said supporting members, a hay rackhaving a front and a rear section, and members pivotally connecting thefront and rear sections, the front section being swingingly supported atits upper end upon said supporting members, the bottom of the rackoperatively engaging the tracks, and means for holding the rear sectionat angularly adjusted positions.

8. In a stall, oppositely disposed pairs of vertically extendingstandards, a hay rack comprising a front section, a rear section, and abottom section, the front section being pivotally connected at its upperends to the front standards, the rear section being swingingly engagedwith said bottom, tracks extending between the front and rear standardsand with which the bottom of the rack engages, means on the rack and onthe tracks for holding the rack in angularly adjusted positions, andmeans engaging the rear section of the rack for supporting it in anyangularly adjusted relation to the bottom of the rack.

9. In a stall of the character described, a feed box, upwardly extendingpairs of laterally disposed standards extending upward from the feedbox, tracks mounted upon said standards and extending rearward andforward, a hay rack comprising a front section, a rear section and abottom section, the rear section being swingingly connected to thebottom section at its lower end, the front section being swinginglyconnected to the front standards, the bottom resting upon and movableover said tracks, means cartically across the frame, linking membersconnecting the lower end of the front section with the lower end of therear section and having portions at the ends embracing the frames ofsaid sections, and a bottom mounted upon said linking members, means forswingingly supporting the front section of the hay rack, means forholding the rack in angularly adjusted positions, and means for holdingthe rear section of the rack in angularly adjusted position relative tothe front section.

11. In a stall of the character described, a concrete loor7longitudinally extending blocks embedded in the floor at the entrance ofthe stall, metallic strips mounted upon said blocks and tapped atintervals, fastening members passing through the strips and into theblocks and into the concrete floor and holding the blocks and strips tothe floor, a cross bar having perforations at its extremities, andscrews passing through the cross bar and engaging the openings in thestrips.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aix my signature in the presence of twoWitnesses.

GEORGE A. MGCART. Witnesses:

M. V. WEATHERFORD, FRANCES MoCoURT.

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